Four I.E. residents indicted in federal drug ring

Federal authorities arrested three San Bernardino County residents Wednesday on suspicion of participating in a drug-trafficking ring that distributed cocaine in Italy and methamphetamine in the United States.

Rafael Urena, 27, of Rancho Cucamonga, Carmen Garcia, 35, of San Bernardino and Jenna Michelle Martin, 25, of Upland were taken into custody.

Six more people had already been arrested or were being sought.

Among those people is Francisco Javier Vargas-Oseguera, 51, of Fontana, who is behind bars in Seattle.

The investigation, called Operation Family Guy, focused on the Urena family, who allegedly ran the drug ring.

The U.S. Attorney's Office said members of the family distributed cocaine in Italy and the U.S. and trafficked methamphetamine across the U.S.

They laundered proceeds from drug sales from the Dominican Republic through use of Western Union wire transfers sent to Fontana and Rancho Cucamonga, authorities say.